Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Gerald Friedman writes on the labor history of the United States and Europe, on health care policy, and on political economy. The author of two books in labor history (State-making and Labor Movements, the United States and France 1876-1914, and Remaking the Labor Movement: Restoring Means to Ends in a Democratic Labor Movement), he has also written a microeconomics textbook unlike any other (Microeconomics: Individual Choice in Communities).